Left="equality of needs." Right="equality of opportunity." Synthesis: "equality of marginal risk"? Me losing $10 != homeless guy losing $10.
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Marginal $10 is food-for-a-day for homeless guy, movie ticket for me. I should be taxed to extent I *don't* risk the $10 in a deeper way?
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many of the most challenging disagreements of left v. right seem to me to partly be about local v. global optimization …
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I'd refine to: Both focus GO on different areas (social vs military) and both distrust different aspects of the market as GO mech
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… Doing gradient descent on marginal risk with Maslow's hierarchy defining depth would never give you libraries, microprocessors.
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wouldn't have in the 50s agreed. In 10 years I suspect kickstarter type mechanisms can fund microprocessor level ideas.
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runs into cost of verification problems - is there a cost-effective mechanism?
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Interesting Q is how much those wicked questions overlap with questions of individual autonomy/scale…to wit, how to tax consumption.


